Bobby_2021

There is no reason to measure things in plain US dollars. That would obviously put the US in advantage. The thing is $100 in India or China is far more valuable than in the US. Aka the difference in Purchasing power parity. There is higher purchasing power in India or China for the same currency. You have to take that into account while measuring the strength of the economy. You guys are too used to measuring stuff in plain USD that even adjusting for your bias makes it seems like I am the one cherry picking data. Sure, feel free to use a measurement that is objectively neutral. You guys expect me to measure everything in plain USD without adjusting for your own bias. This is why leftists whine about the inherent whiteness that permeates the entire social and economic system. You guys are too blissfully unaware of it because it's inconvenient to measure things without the inherent white bias.

Evolution happened over hundreds of millions of years. There is no specific point in time where you can clearly differentiate between the stages. There is no first woman. There is no first human. And there is no first chimpanzee. These are binary distinctions that are reducing reality. For the same reason you cannot spot the exact boundary that separates two countries. These boundaries are an abstraction. But that doesn't mean they don't exist.

This is a pretty good definition and as good as definitions go.

@Phil King It's even worse in the US where you can literally print dollars into existence and prop up the economy. China is atleast building actual infrastructure. Their capacity to build at scale is a flex of their muscles.

A woman is an abstraction that is absolute. A woman is a form of God. But the definition is beyond linguistics or science. These definitions are rhetorical talking points.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

China has already overtaken America, economically. Military wise, no. And they should not.

Use common sense. You can justify anything you want. Just about anything.

Mind == Blown

Russia could probably send any European country back to stone age, if they want to while also accelerating the development of Russian society. Europe got more advanced than US or Russia because they did not spend as much on defense and choose to focus on free healthcare and stuff. That would make them easier targets too. If Russia acted like the US, then Europe would be pummeled by Russian intervention. Geopolitics is a game of power and domination. Development is a rather inconsequential second order issue that is good enough for passive analysis. The moves are made by people in power.

Do you seriously think I am dumb enough to argue that? The west's strategy of domination in covert and overt ways will result in stunted development and collective trauma of the places you are dominating, of which the middle east has been the victims. They are not going to get free healthcare while they are countering a US invasion lmao.

Pretty rich if you ask me. (in a British accent)

Lmfaooo😂

Do you replace it with some intellectually original alternative models or do nothing? The models do help in making sense a lot. Dismissing them mean you could miss out on that.

Every society has some aspects of red, blue, orange and green in it. Casting a society as a specific stage is not accurate. An ostensibly green society might have a strong red underbelly that will be invoked at times. It would be more appropriate to call it red when it is acting as such.

Yeah man it's so funny. There is no real authentic British culture so to speak.

The reason IQ breaks down after a point is not because IQ itself is a bad test. It's because IQ is a relativistic measure and there simply isn't enough people to measure it against when you go towards either ends. Dismissing IQ as vague is as good as dismissing the entire field of psychology.

@Karmadhi Caste system was effective and progressive for it's time. At least there were no chains on slaves like in the "developed" west. Our society has found a way to do all jobs without being too oppressive like slavery in the west.

Are you for real? The only good thing British left here is their language. I am not saying that the corruption some dude is running on some construction project is because of the British rule. It's more subtler than that. Nevertheless it still exists. Saying that India should be thankful for British invading her sovereignty is beyond delusional. You should check the stats before and after the British rule before saying such stuff.

This is so true. I had my first insight into solipsism in first grade afternoon when I was 6 years old. It was so much in my face that I knew that it could not be wrong, but I was still conflicted on it. Now it is all clear.

Well, we have both made our points clear prior to all this. I do not think you are making a serious point here. To be fair, I am already there. I see a lot of things that other are not seeing. I am still on the lookout for errors though.

I did not even know it was possible. Please make detailed info accessible so that I will not do it.

Immigration policy for any western country should be this: Take immigrants that add value to the economy and do not take immigrants that do not add value to the economy. I would listen to the concerns of the local population, but you also have to take into account that your economy is structured like a ponzi scheme. It needs a constant inflow of people to run it. That is how it is structured. It is a complex problem to be honest. You will have to restructure your entire economy if you want to deal with it properly.

India and China was the wealthiest at the time. They didn't need to dominate anyone to get developed. The western notion of development is too intertwined with criminal domination that they forget you can develop without having to slit each others throats. Of course I am not saying that India and China were angels, but hey look at the the degree of domination. India literally never invaded anyone ever in her 10,000 years of history and still managed to be the wealthiest nation in the world before the British colonial rule.

The domination of the west is collectively keeping the development of humanity as a whole in jeopardy. Even though they themselves get to brand themselves as higher developed, relatively speaking, it hinges upon dominating others. That's all. The USSR could have choose to drop bombs and overthrow every single small ally of US. But they held themselves to honorable restraint, the more developed position, got dominated in the end. Now we are stuck with this capitalist war machine. USSR should have never dissolved.